Registration of Births Regulations, 1988

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 123/1988
• Year: 1988

S.I. No. 123 of 1988.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS REGULATIONS, 1988.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 11 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland) 1863, and section 34 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland) 1880, as adapted by section 11 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 , (No. 2 of 1922) hereby makes the following Regulations:— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births Regulations, 1988. 2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 14th day of June 1988. 3. In these Regulations "the Act of 1880" means the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland), 1880. 4. For the purposes of section 7(2)(b) and of section 7A(1)(b) of the Act of 1880, as substituted by section 49 of the Status of Children Act, 1987 (No. 26 of 1987) the declaration by a mother that a person named therein is the father of her child named therein shall be in the form set out in part I of the Schedule to these Regulations or, where a registration is being effected under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of 1880, in the form set out as Form A of the Third Schedule to that Act. 5. For the purposes of section 7(2)(c) and of section 7A(1)(c) of the Act of 1880, as substituted by section 49 of the Status of Children Act, 1987 the declaration by a person acknowledging himself to be the father of the child named therein shall be in the form set out in part II of the Schedule to these Regulations or, where a registration is being effected under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of 1880, in the form set out as Form A of the Third Schedule to that Act. 6. Where re-registration of a birth, under section 7A of the Act of 1880, as so substituted, is authorised by an tArd-Chlaraitheoir, the person or persons at whose request the re-registration is being effected, shall subject as herein after provided, attend personally at the Office of the registrar of births and deaths of the district in which the birth took place and sign the register in the presence of the registrar. 7. (1) The registrar of the district in which a birth took place, on receiving the written authority of an tArd-Chláraitheoir to re-register the birth under section 7A of the Act of 1880, as so substituted, shall, in the presence of the person or persons at whose request the re-registration is being effected, enter the birth in the birth register in the manner and form set out in these regulations and the person or persons at whose request the birth is being re-registered shall sign the register in column 8 of the entry in the presence of the registrar.

(2) The registrar shall enter in columns 2 to 7 of the birth register the particulars stated in the written authority of an tArd-Chláraitheoir as particulars to be entered in these columns on the information given to an tArd-Chláraitheoir.

(3) The registrar shall insert in column 8 after the signature of the person or persons at whose request the re-registration is being effected the qualification and...